prodla.blogg.se - Snip & sketch shortcut

So, putting this all together, it gets quite simple, when you just remember F5 (if using that as shortcut key for Snipping Tool) to start Snipping Tool (or Alt + Tab to tab to it if already open), then Alt + M (select Mode), then Cursor Keys to move tool around screen, then Shift + Cursor Keys to start the capture (for Rectangular and Free-form). I believe that this covers everything that the OP is asking for, you can now do everything from the keyboard alone.

Shift + cursor keys Move the cursor to select a rectangular snip area.

Alt + N Create a new snip in the same mode as the last one.

Note the Snipping Tool specific shortcut keys (not easily found, but are referenced on a Microsoft page): You can optionally change the key used for this here: Changing this to "Take screen clipping" will make that the default when you double click on this tray icon. You can change the default action when you double-click on the OneNote tray icon by right-clicking on that and going to OneNote icon defaults. Opens a rectangular screen capture (use mouse or cursor keys) to grab a selected area of screen to clipboard (Ctrl-V to paste somewhere as normal).

Win + Shift + S This is the OneNote "Take Screen clipping" function.

Alt + PrintScreen Capture current Window or dialogue to clipboard (Ctrl-V to paste somewhere as normal).

Win + PrintScreen Save a Full-screen to an image in the Screenshots folder: C:\Users\\Pictures\Screenshots.

Ctrl + PrintScreen If Snipping Tool is currently open, will start a Snipping Tool operation, otherwise, acts as a normal PrintScreen above.

PrintScreen Saves entire screenshot to clipboard (Ctrl-V to paste somewhere as normal).

Note the default OS screen capture options, quite a lot can be done with these, particularly the OneNote specific Win + Shift + S ("Take screen clipping" function).

Quicker way than above: Just open Start, type "snip" to see the Snipping Tool, right-click on it in Start menu then select "Open file location" which will open Explorer in the folder where the Snipping Tool Start menu shortcut is located, right-click on that and in Properties adjust the shortcut key (I just used F5 here in line with Sant14's post above). Note: Mouse Keys (a function in the Ease of Access tools, as noted above by Peter Pompeii above), are not in any way required for this, and will not help with any of the below.Ĭreate hotkey for Snipping Tool. A lot of good answers here, but I don't see any that directly answer the OP (some mention 3rd party tools, which are great, but it's good to know defaults on a bare system, as asked, so to answer the OP using default key options in Windows ("Is there a way to launch a default snipping action"), here are the options available using just OS hotkeys (except for one, creating a hotkey for Snipping Tool has to be done manually as noted above).